Interview with Manish Patel, CEO and co-founder of Jiva.ai

Manish Patel, CEO and co-founder of Jiva.ai, shared insights into the company’s mission and its strategic partnership with Toca.

About Jiva.ai

Manish, originally a biologist, moved into machine learning and AI around the completion of the Human Genome Project, applying his expertise across sectors such as banking, insurance and health tech before co-founding Jiva.ai.

Jiva.ai identified a significant market gap: many businesses, regardless of size, struggle with data analysis, predictive analytics and automation because they lack in-house AI and machine learning expertise. This talent is rare and expensive to hire, and developing and deploying AI solutions is time-consuming and costly.

Jiva.ai’s core mission is to democratise access to AI and machine learning by compressing the complexity, time and cost of developing and deploying these solutions. Its core technology, model fusion, creates and fuses multiple machine learning models, which the team believes will be fundamental to the emerging “agentic AI” story. Jiva.ai aims to provide end-to-end AI solutions, from inception to production, whether for machine learning, data science or agentic AI.

Partnership with Toca

Jiva.ai has partnered with Toca as a technical ally. Manish describes Toca as a “dream partner” because Toca excels in areas where Jiva.ai does not focus. Toca handles interface design and data integration with a low-code approach, along with automations and front-facing applications. Jiva.ai concentrates solely on the data science and AI.

The partnership answers a common client need for a full-stack solution, covering UI, middleware, business logic, data integration and analytics, rather than just the AI component. Working together, Toca and Jiva.ai give clients a seamless journey: a single partner for a complete product build, from concept to production.

Benefits of the partnership

• Expanded market reach: Toca’s strong sales team and versatile platform (a platform rather than a single vertical product) significantly help Jiva.ai’s go-to-market through distributors, resellers and technical partnerships. Jiva.ai can approach a much wider market in a shorter time, as clients often have existing relationships with these partners.
• Lowered barrier to entry: the collaboration lowers the barrier for businesses that want to engage with AI and machine learning.
• Unified mission: both companies share a mission of democratising technology through low-code interfaces. Jiva.ai democratises AI, while Toca democratises automation, RPA and UI building. Together, that is democratisation across the whole technology stack, and more opportunity than either could find alone.
• Enhanced customer experience: clients get a smoother, more efficient build and deployment by working with a single, comprehensive partner.
• Force multiplier: Manish describes Toca as Jiva.ai’s “force multiplier”, unlocking growth potential and enhancing the customer experience.

The future of AI and low-code

Manish highlighted that Jiva.ai is entering a significant growth phase, constantly innovating to stay ahead in a fast-moving AI landscape. He sees low-code solutions becoming more prevalent alongside “vibe coding” (AI-assisted code generation), and predicts these will become the most common ways to build products. This acceleration of build and deployment, for startups and corporates alike, is what Manish finds most exciting.

He believes that the convergence of advanced AI and enablement platforms like Toca presents an enormous opportunity with incredible growth potential.

Advice for potential partners

Manish advises any company considering a partnership with Toca to align its product from the client’s perspective. The key is to show how the combined offering will improve the customer’s experience of building and running their solutions. Get that narrative right, he says, and it will open up a world of opportunities.

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